Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Fribourg and head of the project “Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time.” Agnieszka has spent more than four years studying and conducting research in China. Between 2018-2023, Agnieszka she the research project "ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China's Inner Asian Borders", which focused on roads being built in the China-Central Asia borderlands as part of the One Belt One Road Initiative. Since 2019, Agnieszka has also been the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Roadsides.
In the “Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time” project, Agnieszka explores the question of how decentral energy production can be successfully maintained over time and how it can strengthen economic and social structures in the Alpine communities. She is focusing on the Canton of Uri in the Swiss Alps, where privately- and community-owned small scale hydropower stations and grids have been operating for more than a hundred years, providing valuable knowledge to help answer these questions.
Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time
Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time
